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Then we'll begin.
This is the story of Johnny Gamer, (JG to his mates), who is having a spot of trouble playing online games.
Johnny loves RPGs, so he enjoys all sorts of wonderful games where he can run about dressed like an Elf and shoot things with bows and arrows. One day, as Johnny was rolling his 12-sided dice and writing the resulting score onto a piece of paper with a pencil to see how his LvL 124 Elf would fare against the Morbid Troll of Doom Valley, he heard a strange noise coming from his PC over in the corner.
Forgetting about his Elf for now, he went over to his desk and looked at his PC monitor, which was telling him that there was a new message waiting for him in his e-mail. So Johnny went into his e-mail and discovered the most wonderful news. There was a new game that could be played online with hundreds, nay thousands of other people.
Johnny thought that this would make quite a change from sitting in his darkened room moving cardboard figurines about on a board, so he signed up straight away to Never Morrow Elf's Gate: Diablo Galaxies of Torment, paying for a month with his credit card and getting another month free as a special introductory offer.
He then went online, created an Elf character, and was as happy as any gamer could be. He made lots of new Elf friends who actually talked back to him, and he traded his e-mail address with a few of them who seemed nice.
Poor Johnny. After a few weeks of playing, Poor Johnny noticed that he couldn't access his Hotmail account anymore because someone had changed the password. Then he logged into NMEG:DGT only to find that someone had accessed his account because they had used his Hotmail account to request the password from the game's support team.
Poor Johnny tried in vain to get his account back, but to no avail, the malicious person had changed all his details to theirs and paid for another month, so there was no way he could prove the account was his in the first place.
Poor Johnny loved the game, so he signed up for a new account, this time using his ISPs e-mail address and bought another month's gametime. He was now ultra-cautious, never giving out his e-mail address ingame to anyone.
And so he began to level up his character from scratch again, until one day he heard of a brilliant scheme whereby he could level up faster, by allowing someone in a different timezone to play on his character whilst he slept. So he contacted one of these nice-sounding Australians, gave them his login ID and Password, went to sleep, and woke up the next morning to discover that all his account details had been changed again.
Poor Dumb Johnny. But he still loved this game so much, that once again he created a new e-mail address with his ISP and signed up yet again. Unfortunately, the game's servers weren't as secure as they were meant to be and some crackers found a backdoor into the system the same day he signed up, grabbing loads of passwords from players' accounts including Poor Dumb Unfortunate Johnny's account.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Johnny was now Distraught. He loved this game so much and yet everything seemed to be working against him. Perservering, though, he signed up for yet another go, on the understanding that the support team had now rectified this small backdoor problem to their servers.
And so Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught yet Perservering Johnny began to play, and play and play. He knew he was ultra-secure this time, never giving out his login details or e-mail address to anyone ingame no matter how much he trusted them.
After 6 months Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Johnny stumbled across a new website. It was very professionally designed, and listed loads of great cheats for NMEG:DGT that he'd heard of other players using but had never tried himself. They all looked pretty good, so he downloaded the "ArrowsNeverMiss.exe" program onto his computer. What Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny didn't realise was that this program contained a little Trojan file which allowed someone else at a remote computer to monitor all his keystrokes as he typed on his keyboard. Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny didn't have a virus scanner running, and missed the Trojan as it loaded up into his registery and send his login details to a cracker who subsequently nicked his account.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny soon learnt all there was to know about virus scanners, bought one from a reliable source, loaded it up, and had it scanning 24 hours a day from then on. "What could possibly go wrong now?" he thought to himself, Naively.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Johnny once again created his account, announced to all his friends on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) that he was now back online with a new character, and began to level up yet again. But whilst he was in the IRC Channel, a script kiddie managed to grab Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Johnny's I.P. address, ran a scan of his ports, found a couple of open ones, sent a Denial Of Service attack to one port and managed to gain remote access to his PC through the other one, using it to send out 3,667,343 pornographic e-mails to politicians and law enforcement officers throughout the world.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Incautious Johnny soon learnt all about Firewalls and how to set up and configure them to sheath all ports and allow him to appear 'invisible' to other web users. He was willing to give NMEG:DGT one last try, because he was secure as he possibly could be.
So he rebooted his computer, signed up to a new ISP with a new e-mail address, started up his Anti-Virus Software, sheathed his I.P. address using the Options settings of his IRC client, loaded up and configured his Firewall, signed up for a new NMEG:DGT account using a 128-bit encryption algorithm to encode his password and login details so that even he wouldn't know what they were... and paused. He thought to himself "Wow, that took 20 minutes just to get ready to play this game, is it worth it?"
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Incautious Worldly-Wise Johnny had a revelation. Rolling 12-sided dice was much faster.
And so Johnny Gamer (Johnny Geek to his mates) went back to roleplaying with dice and pencil and paper.
This is the story of Johnny Gamer, (JG to his mates), who is having a spot of trouble playing online games.
Johnny loves RPGs, so he enjoys all sorts of wonderful games where he can run about dressed like an Elf and shoot things with bows and arrows. One day, as Johnny was rolling his 12-sided dice and writing the resulting score onto a piece of paper with a pencil to see how his LvL 124 Elf would fare against the Morbid Troll of Doom Valley, he heard a strange noise coming from his PC over in the corner.
Forgetting about his Elf for now, he went over to his desk and looked at his PC monitor, which was telling him that there was a new message waiting for him in his e-mail. So Johnny went into his e-mail and discovered the most wonderful news. There was a new game that could be played online with hundreds, nay thousands of other people.
Johnny thought that this would make quite a change from sitting in his darkened room moving cardboard figurines about on a board, so he signed up straight away to Never Morrow Elf's Gate: Diablo Galaxies of Torment, paying for a month with his credit card and getting another month free as a special introductory offer.
He then went online, created an Elf character, and was as happy as any gamer could be. He made lots of new Elf friends who actually talked back to him, and he traded his e-mail address with a few of them who seemed nice.
Poor Johnny. After a few weeks of playing, Poor Johnny noticed that he couldn't access his Hotmail account anymore because someone had changed the password. Then he logged into NMEG:DGT only to find that someone had accessed his account because they had used his Hotmail account to request the password from the game's support team.
Poor Johnny tried in vain to get his account back, but to no avail, the malicious person had changed all his details to theirs and paid for another month, so there was no way he could prove the account was his in the first place.
Poor Johnny loved the game, so he signed up for a new account, this time using his ISPs e-mail address and bought another month's gametime. He was now ultra-cautious, never giving out his e-mail address ingame to anyone.
And so he began to level up his character from scratch again, until one day he heard of a brilliant scheme whereby he could level up faster, by allowing someone in a different timezone to play on his character whilst he slept. So he contacted one of these nice-sounding Australians, gave them his login ID and Password, went to sleep, and woke up the next morning to discover that all his account details had been changed again.
Poor Dumb Johnny. But he still loved this game so much, that once again he created a new e-mail address with his ISP and signed up yet again. Unfortunately, the game's servers weren't as secure as they were meant to be and some crackers found a backdoor into the system the same day he signed up, grabbing loads of passwords from players' accounts including Poor Dumb Unfortunate Johnny's account.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Johnny was now Distraught. He loved this game so much and yet everything seemed to be working against him. Perservering, though, he signed up for yet another go, on the understanding that the support team had now rectified this small backdoor problem to their servers.
And so Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught yet Perservering Johnny began to play, and play and play. He knew he was ultra-secure this time, never giving out his login details or e-mail address to anyone ingame no matter how much he trusted them.
After 6 months Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Johnny stumbled across a new website. It was very professionally designed, and listed loads of great cheats for NMEG:DGT that he'd heard of other players using but had never tried himself. They all looked pretty good, so he downloaded the "ArrowsNeverMiss.exe" program onto his computer. What Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny didn't realise was that this program contained a little Trojan file which allowed someone else at a remote computer to monitor all his keystrokes as he typed on his keyboard. Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny didn't have a virus scanner running, and missed the Trojan as it loaded up into his registery and send his login details to a cracker who subsequently nicked his account.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny soon learnt all there was to know about virus scanners, bought one from a reliable source, loaded it up, and had it scanning 24 hours a day from then on. "What could possibly go wrong now?" he thought to himself, Naively.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Johnny once again created his account, announced to all his friends on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) that he was now back online with a new character, and began to level up yet again. But whilst he was in the IRC Channel, a script kiddie managed to grab Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Johnny's I.P. address, ran a scan of his ports, found a couple of open ones, sent a Denial Of Service attack to one port and managed to gain remote access to his PC through the other one, using it to send out 3,667,343 pornographic e-mails to politicians and law enforcement officers throughout the world.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Incautious Johnny soon learnt all about Firewalls and how to set up and configure them to sheath all ports and allow him to appear 'invisible' to other web users. He was willing to give NMEG:DGT one last try, because he was secure as he possibly could be.
So he rebooted his computer, signed up to a new ISP with a new e-mail address, started up his Anti-Virus Software, sheathed his I.P. address using the Options settings of his IRC client, loaded up and configured his Firewall, signed up for a new NMEG:DGT account using a 128-bit encryption algorithm to encode his password and login details so that even he wouldn't know what they were... and paused. He thought to himself "Wow, that took 20 minutes just to get ready to play this game, is it worth it?"
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Incautious Worldly-Wise Johnny had a revelation. Rolling 12-sided dice was much faster.
And so Johnny Gamer (Johnny Geek to his mates) went back to roleplaying with dice and pencil and paper.
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Then we'll begin.
This is the story of Johnny Gamer, (JG to his mates), who is having a spot of trouble playing online games.
Johnny loves RPGs, so he enjoys all sorts of wonderful games where he can run about dressed like an Elf and shoot things with bows and arrows. One day, as Johnny was rolling his 12-sided dice and writing the resulting score onto a piece of paper with a pencil to see how his LvL 124 Elf would fare against the Morbid Troll of Doom Valley, he heard a strange noise coming from his PC over in the corner.
Forgetting about his Elf for now, he went over to his desk and looked at his PC monitor, which was telling him that there was a new message waiting for him in his e-mail. So Johnny went into his e-mail and discovered the most wonderful news. There was a new game that could be played online with hundreds, nay thousands of other people.
Johnny thought that this would make quite a change from sitting in his darkened room moving cardboard figurines about on a board, so he signed up straight away to Never Morrow Elf's Gate: Diablo Galaxies of Torment, paying for a month with his credit card and getting another month free as a special introductory offer.
He then went online, created an Elf character, and was as happy as any gamer could be. He made lots of new Elf friends who actually talked back to him, and he traded his e-mail address with a few of them who seemed nice.
Poor Johnny. After a few weeks of playing, Poor Johnny noticed that he couldn't access his Hotmail account anymore because someone had changed the password. Then he logged into NMEG:DGT only to find that someone had accessed his account because they had used his Hotmail account to request the password from the game's support team.
Poor Johnny tried in vain to get his account back, but to no avail, the malicious person had changed all his details to theirs and paid for another month, so there was no way he could prove the account was his in the first place.
Poor Johnny loved the game, so he signed up for a new account, this time using his ISPs e-mail address and bought another month's gametime. He was now ultra-cautious, never giving out his e-mail address ingame to anyone.
And so he began to level up his character from scratch again, until one day he heard of a brilliant scheme whereby he could level up faster, by allowing someone in a different timezone to play on his character whilst he slept. So he contacted one of these nice-sounding Australians, gave them his login ID and Password, went to sleep, and woke up the next morning to discover that all his account details had been changed again.
Poor Dumb Johnny. But he still loved this game so much, that once again he created a new e-mail address with his ISP and signed up yet again. Unfortunately, the game's servers weren't as secure as they were meant to be and some crackers found a backdoor into the system the same day he signed up, grabbing loads of passwords from players' accounts including Poor Dumb Unfortunate Johnny's account.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Johnny was now Distraught. He loved this game so much and yet everything seemed to be working against him. Perservering, though, he signed up for yet another go, on the understanding that the support team had now rectified this small backdoor problem to their servers.
And so Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught yet Perservering Johnny began to play, and play and play. He knew he was ultra-secure this time, never giving out his login details or e-mail address to anyone ingame no matter how much he trusted them.
After 6 months Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Johnny stumbled across a new website. It was very professionally designed, and listed loads of great cheats for NMEG:DGT that he'd heard of other players using but had never tried himself. They all looked pretty good, so he downloaded the "ArrowsNeverMiss.exe" program onto his computer. What Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny didn't realise was that this program contained a little Trojan file which allowed someone else at a remote computer to monitor all his keystrokes as he typed on his keyboard. Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny didn't have a virus scanner running, and missed the Trojan as it loaded up into his registery and send his login details to a cracker who subsequently nicked his account.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny soon learnt all there was to know about virus scanners, bought one from a reliable source, loaded it up, and had it scanning 24 hours a day from then on. "What could possibly go wrong now?" he thought to himself, Naively.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Johnny once again created his account, announced to all his friends on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) that he was now back online with a new character, and began to level up yet again. But whilst he was in the IRC Channel, a script kiddie managed to grab Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Johnny's I.P. address, ran a scan of his ports, found a couple of open ones, sent a Denial Of Service attack to one port and managed to gain remote access to his PC through the other one, using it to send out 3,667,343 pornographic e-mails to politicians and law enforcement officers throughout the world.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Incautious Johnny soon learnt all about Firewalls and how to set up and configure them to sheath all ports and allow him to appear 'invisible' to other web users. He was willing to give NMEG:DGT one last try, because he was secure as he possibly could be.
So he rebooted his computer, signed up to a new ISP with a new e-mail address, started up his Anti-Virus Software, sheathed his I.P. address using the Options settings of his IRC client, loaded up and configured his Firewall, signed up for a new NMEG:DGT account using a 128-bit encryption algorithm to encode his password and login details so that even he wouldn't know what they were... and paused. He thought to himself "Wow, that took 20 minutes just to get ready to play this game, is it worth it?"
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Incautious Worldly-Wise Johnny had a revelation. Rolling 12-sided dice was much faster.
And so Johnny Gamer (Johnny Geek to his mates) went back to roleplaying with dice and pencil and paper.
This is the story of Johnny Gamer, (JG to his mates), who is having a spot of trouble playing online games.
Johnny loves RPGs, so he enjoys all sorts of wonderful games where he can run about dressed like an Elf and shoot things with bows and arrows. One day, as Johnny was rolling his 12-sided dice and writing the resulting score onto a piece of paper with a pencil to see how his LvL 124 Elf would fare against the Morbid Troll of Doom Valley, he heard a strange noise coming from his PC over in the corner.
Forgetting about his Elf for now, he went over to his desk and looked at his PC monitor, which was telling him that there was a new message waiting for him in his e-mail. So Johnny went into his e-mail and discovered the most wonderful news. There was a new game that could be played online with hundreds, nay thousands of other people.
Johnny thought that this would make quite a change from sitting in his darkened room moving cardboard figurines about on a board, so he signed up straight away to Never Morrow Elf's Gate: Diablo Galaxies of Torment, paying for a month with his credit card and getting another month free as a special introductory offer.
He then went online, created an Elf character, and was as happy as any gamer could be. He made lots of new Elf friends who actually talked back to him, and he traded his e-mail address with a few of them who seemed nice.
Poor Johnny. After a few weeks of playing, Poor Johnny noticed that he couldn't access his Hotmail account anymore because someone had changed the password. Then he logged into NMEG:DGT only to find that someone had accessed his account because they had used his Hotmail account to request the password from the game's support team.
Poor Johnny tried in vain to get his account back, but to no avail, the malicious person had changed all his details to theirs and paid for another month, so there was no way he could prove the account was his in the first place.
Poor Johnny loved the game, so he signed up for a new account, this time using his ISPs e-mail address and bought another month's gametime. He was now ultra-cautious, never giving out his e-mail address ingame to anyone.
And so he began to level up his character from scratch again, until one day he heard of a brilliant scheme whereby he could level up faster, by allowing someone in a different timezone to play on his character whilst he slept. So he contacted one of these nice-sounding Australians, gave them his login ID and Password, went to sleep, and woke up the next morning to discover that all his account details had been changed again.
Poor Dumb Johnny. But he still loved this game so much, that once again he created a new e-mail address with his ISP and signed up yet again. Unfortunately, the game's servers weren't as secure as they were meant to be and some crackers found a backdoor into the system the same day he signed up, grabbing loads of passwords from players' accounts including Poor Dumb Unfortunate Johnny's account.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Johnny was now Distraught. He loved this game so much and yet everything seemed to be working against him. Perservering, though, he signed up for yet another go, on the understanding that the support team had now rectified this small backdoor problem to their servers.
And so Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught yet Perservering Johnny began to play, and play and play. He knew he was ultra-secure this time, never giving out his login details or e-mail address to anyone ingame no matter how much he trusted them.
After 6 months Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Johnny stumbled across a new website. It was very professionally designed, and listed loads of great cheats for NMEG:DGT that he'd heard of other players using but had never tried himself. They all looked pretty good, so he downloaded the "ArrowsNeverMiss.exe" program onto his computer. What Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny didn't realise was that this program contained a little Trojan file which allowed someone else at a remote computer to monitor all his keystrokes as he typed on his keyboard. Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny didn't have a virus scanner running, and missed the Trojan as it loaded up into his registery and send his login details to a cracker who subsequently nicked his account.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Johnny soon learnt all there was to know about virus scanners, bought one from a reliable source, loaded it up, and had it scanning 24 hours a day from then on. "What could possibly go wrong now?" he thought to himself, Naively.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Johnny once again created his account, announced to all his friends on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) that he was now back online with a new character, and began to level up yet again. But whilst he was in the IRC Channel, a script kiddie managed to grab Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Johnny's I.P. address, ran a scan of his ports, found a couple of open ones, sent a Denial Of Service attack to one port and managed to gain remote access to his PC through the other one, using it to send out 3,667,343 pornographic e-mails to politicians and law enforcement officers throughout the world.
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Incautious Johnny soon learnt all about Firewalls and how to set up and configure them to sheath all ports and allow him to appear 'invisible' to other web users. He was willing to give NMEG:DGT one last try, because he was secure as he possibly could be.
So he rebooted his computer, signed up to a new ISP with a new e-mail address, started up his Anti-Virus Software, sheathed his I.P. address using the Options settings of his IRC client, loaded up and configured his Firewall, signed up for a new NMEG:DGT account using a 128-bit encryption algorithm to encode his password and login details so that even he wouldn't know what they were... and paused. He thought to himself "Wow, that took 20 minutes just to get ready to play this game, is it worth it?"
Poor Dumb Unfortunate Distraught Perservering Silly Naive Incautious Worldly-Wise Johnny had a revelation. Rolling 12-sided dice was much faster.
And so Johnny Gamer (Johnny Geek to his mates) went back to roleplaying with dice and pencil and paper.